Agilent Q1 FY2026: $1.80B revenue, all three segments grow ahead of May 27 print

Agilent Technologies reported first-quarter fiscal 2026 results on February 25, with total revenue of $1.80 billion, up 7.0% reported and 4.4% on a core basis year-on-year. The company will release second-quarter fiscal 2026 results after the close on Wednesday, May 27, with a conference call at 1:30 p.m. PDT the same day. The Q1 print is the most recent set of audited segment numbers available to buyers benchmarking analytical-instrument spend.

All three operating segments grew. The Life Sciences and Diagnostics Markets Group (LDG) posted $679 million in revenue, up 5% reported and 3% core. The Applied Markets Group (AMG), which sits closest to industrial and process-analytics workflows, posted $361 million, up 7% reported and 4% core. Agilent CrossLab Group (ACG), the services and consumables arm, posted $758 million, up 9% reported and 6% core, and remains the largest segment by revenue. GAAP diluted EPS was $1.07; non-GAAP EPS was $1.36, up 4% year-on-year. President and CEO Padraig McDonnell described the quarter as “a solid start to the year with the Agilent team executing well in a healthy - albeit dynamic - market environment.” Full-year FY2026 guidance was held at $7.3-7.5 billion in revenue (5.5-7.5% reported, 4-6% core) and non-GAAP EPS of $5.90-6.04.

For process-analytics buyers, the readthrough sits in the AMG and ACG lines. AMG’s 4% core growth puts Agilent’s industrial and applied-markets pull modestly ahead of Thermo Fisher’s flat Analytical Instruments segment in the same quarter, and ACG’s 6% core growth signals continued attach-rate strength on the installed base. Neither segment-level reporting disaggregates inline process instruments from lab-floor LC, GC, or MS systems, so the figures should not be read as a signal about Agilent’s process-analyser line specifically; teams sizing capex against published catalogue pricing should still cross-check against the Raman vs NIR decision framework before drawing vendor-level conclusions. The May 27 release will refresh the guide range and is the next checkpoint for AMG demand.